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How to Properly Deal With the Unfair and Chaotic Nature of the World
Have you ever felt like life has been unfair to you? Maybe not all the time, but sometimes luck just doesn’t go your way.
On top of that, you have forces and immutable characteristics completely out of your control that dictate parts of your life.
Seems a bit messed up doesn’t it?
Society as a whole just seems crazily unfair.
Welcome to being a human being living on planet earth. The thing about human beings? We’re self-centered. Even the most pious and self-righteous among us are usually only able to see life through the narrow lens of their own experience.
So this causes us to look at how unfair our lives are and totally ignore everyone else who would look at us as “privileged.” Then it’s turtles all the way up and down for everyone everywhere.
I live in America, the most abundant country in the world in absolute terms, but you might not know it by looking at our discourse.
We walk about wealth inequality and the one percent, meanwhile, there are entire continents of people who’d kill to live at the poverty line in America — the poverty line would be a ten-fold increase in their living standards.
